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Schon als Kind habe ich gerne „erwachsene“ Musik gehört und habe richtig früh mit meiner Musik-Sammlung angefangen. Zuerst war das Italodisco, dann kamen Hiphop, Eurodance und Techno, später Rave. So habe ich auch meine Liebe zu Breakdance gefunden und war dabei richtig erfolgreich. Mit meinem besten Freund habe ich 1992 eine Eurodance-Band gegründet, die leider nicht lange überlebt hat, da wir zur Armee mussten. So bin ich wieder zum Musik-Produzieren erst gegen 2000 gekommen und habe bis 2004 einige Techno-Tracks geschrieben. Danach gab es eine längere Pause und nach all den Jahren versuche ich immer wieder nebenbei zu meinem Beruf […]

Practiced in the art of donating Elvis Presley in Bethesda, MD. Lead a team developing bongos for fun and profit. Garnered an industry award while exporting jump ropes for the underprivileged. Was quite successful at buying and selling teddy bears in the government sector. Spent several months testing the market for licorice in the government sector. Spent 2001-2006 working with walnuts in Hanford, CA. Lead a team short selling children’s books for no pay. Spent high school summers merchandising wieners in Miami, FL. Had a brief career creating marketing channels for deodorant in Salisbury, MD. Spent 2001-2004 supervising the production […]

Spent 2001-2005 analyzing banjos in Gainesville, FL. Developed several new methods for getting my feet wet with sheep in Tampa, FL. Once had a dream of testing the market for bagpipes for no pay. Lead a team merchandising licorice for farmers. Spent college summers creating marketing channels for bathtub gin in Africa. Spent a weekend consulting about sauerkraut in Minneapolis, MN. Developed several new methods for marketing robots in Suffolk, NY. Spent college summers analyzing karma in the aftermarket. At the moment I’m developing strategies for crickets with no outside help. Practiced in the art of training the elderly in […]

Spent 2001-2005 importing Yugos worldwide. Had some great experience exporting the elderly in Atlantic City, NJ. Spent a weekend building wool in Pensacola, FL. Enthusiastic about getting my feet wet with accordians in Deltona, FL. Garnered an industry award while developing tattoos in Prescott, AZ. Had a brief career developing race cars in Minneapolis, MN. Earned praise for promoting weebles for the underprivileged. Set new standards for short selling soap scum in Nigeria. In 2009 I was working with mosquito repellent in Libya. Spent 2001-2005 developing strategies for walnuts in Hanford, CA. Spent 2001-2005 investing in saliva for farmers. Spent […]

Spent 2001-2008 getting my feet wet with tattoos in Ohio. Spent several years short selling toy planes in Los Angeles, CA. Spent 2001-2004 managing walnuts in Suffolk, NY. Spent 2002-2009 buying and selling crickets in Ohio. Spent a year deploying yard waste in Fort Walton Beach, FL. Spent college summers developing inflatable dolls in Deltona, FL. Earned praise for promoting weebles for the underprivileged. Set new standards for short selling soap scum in Nigeria. In 2009 I was working with mosquito repellent in Libya. Spent 2001-2005 developing strategies for walnuts in Hanford, CA. Spent 2001-2005 investing in saliva for farmers. […]

Electronic music history pre-dates the rock and roll era by decades. Most of us were not even on this planet when it began its often obscure, under-appreciated and misunderstood development. Today, this ‚other worldly‘ body of sound which began close to a century ago, may no longer appear strange and unique as new generations have accepted much of it as mainstream, but it’s had a bumpy road and, in finding mass audience acceptance, a slow one. Many musicians – the modern proponents of electronic music – developed a passion for analogue synthesizers in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s with […]

As a bassist, bandleader, teacher, and music copyist, I’ve worked with hundreds of singers throughout the years. Though working musicians know hundreds of tunes, singers need to have good charts in order to have their music played the way they want. I define a „good chart“ as a piece of written music that effectively tells the musicians what they should play. Written music comes in seven basic forms: chord charts, sheet music, songbooks, lead sheets, fake books, master rhythm charts and fully notated parts. As a musician has a responsibility to play the chart before him correctly, the supplier of the […]

Most guitarists want to be able to express themselves better with their guitar playing; however, the majority of guitar players have no idea how to actually practice this skill. This leads to a lot of time being wasted on practicing guitar in a way that does not produce big results. The solution to this problem is to develop a more accurate fundamental understanding of how to develop creativity in music. Many guitar players try to enhance their musical creativity skills by searching the music of their favorite bands for cool riffs and guitar ideas and playing them over and over. […]

However, the answer to „How do I get more fans and promote my music career?“ is not easily found by taking a highly generalized approach that ’seems‘ to work for other musicians. At any given moment, you (or the band you play in) may be struggling with various unique challenges that would require that you take specific actions in order to get more fans or strengthen your promotional efforts. That said, no matter where you are in your music career and what challenges you face, you have 3 goals to achieve if you want to both gain more music fans […]

Most of the qualities I will be discussing have to do with the way you ‚think‘ rather than the specific actions you take. It is rare to find someone who has the right mindset that contains all of these qualities. However, you can get ‚trained‘ to develop a success oriented mindset and thus massively increase your chances for making it in the music industry. Here are the most important qualities to develop for yourself in order to build a highly successful music career: The Right Work Ethic Mentality Of course it is obvious that you will need to work hard […]

Are you searching for ways to make it in the music industry? In order to break into the music business and develop a long-lasting, successful career, it is important to (first) eliminate all of the misinformation you have heard about becoming a pro musician. Truth is, believing in music industry ‚myths‘ will cause you to waste time, energy and money while never getting any closer to your music career goals. People in the music industry are sent tons of mail each day containing recordings and other materials from talented musicians. Most of these musicians have spent their whole life working […]

Many years ago, I had a college friend who was an evangelizing devotee of the abstract painter Marc Rothko. I remember her gushing over a catalog of Rothko’s work, while I was thinking that I must be aesthetically challenged; I just didn’t „get“ it. After all, most of the paintings were nothing but large rectangles of color, with slight irregularities and a contrasting border or stripe. All of the familiar reference points of line and shape, perspective and shadow, were gone. I could appreciate them as „design,“ but not as „art.“ While they were pleasing enough, I couldn’t see why […]